Plants and Communities

Forestry in Virginia

Links

• Blue Ridge Wildflowers (Virginia)
• Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Field Trip to New Jersey and Virginia
• Defenders of Wildlife
  • Biodiversity Center
  • Saving Biodiversity: A Status Report on State Laws, Policies and Programs
  • Endangered Ecosystems: A Status Report on America's Vanishing Habitat and Wildlife
  • EPA - Environmental Education Center
• Effects of Mid-Rotation Release on Forest Structure, Wildlife Habitat, and Pine Yield (masters thesis, Virginia Tech, by Kyla Ingeborg Cheynet)
• E.Nature
  • habitat guides
• Flora of North Amerca
• Flora of Virginia
• Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
• Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Virginia
• Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
  • Aggregated Kuchler Types: (Post-Transition) and (Pre-Transition)
  • Forest Cover in Eastern United States Showing Protected Forest Areas
• Biological Resources Information - Virginia (from National Biological Information Infrastructure)
• Terrestrial Vegetation of the United States: The National Vegetation Classification System
• Association for Biodiversity Information
• Species-Habitat Associations and Succession Vectors for Small Mammal and Land Bird Populations on Assateague Island National seashore
• A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States
• Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA)
  • Mid-Atlantic Tour
  • Ecological Resources - Wetlands
  • reports - An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas
• How forests are being nibbled to death by DUCs, and what to do about it from Forest Fragmentation conference
• Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas (National Park Service)
• Virginia Native Plant Society
  • "plant of the year" photos
  • Virginia Native Plant Registry
• Virtual Tour: State Arboretum of Virginia (at Blandy Experimental Farm)
• Virginia Gap Analysis Project
  • check out the overview of these state projects from The Mining Company Guide to Ecology
• Wild World Contest
  • Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World
  • First Place: How the Freshwater Areas around Pulaski, Virginia compare to the Hawaiian Marine Ecoregion by Dublin Middle School (Pulaski County, Virginia)
• Virginia Natural Heritage Program
  • The Natural Communities of Virginia: Classification of Ecological Community Groups (Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Natural Heritage - Natural Heritage Technical Report 01-1, January 2001)

jack-in-the-pulpit at Jamestown Island